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David P. Landau
Distinguished Research Professor
Director of the Center for Simulational Physics
Lamar Dodd Award 2003
Creative Research Medal 1981
Distinguished Research Professor 1984
David P. Landau, distinguished research professor and director
of the Center for Simulational Physics, received the Lamar Dodd
Award. Landau uses supercomputer simulations to study how solids
and liquids behave at atomic levels. His research on the behavior
of magnets has applications for semiconductors and other thin film
devices. Landau’s group discovered fatal flaws in random
number generators used for supercomputer simulations and devised
ways to fix the problems, an achievement reported in The New York
Times. Co-editor of 17 books on computer simulations, Landau recently
received the Aneesur Rahman Prize, the highest honor for outstanding
computational physics given by the American Physical Society. His
scientific papers have been cited more than 6,000 times.
Source: 24th Annual Research Awards Program (2003)
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